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We do strive to include every film that has been screened at the LGBT film festivals around the world.

Life does become a little more difficult when they [the films] don’t have an IMDb entry...therefore, they end up here...films in dire need of publicity/promotion/marketing...

1970s - UPDATED: December 2025

 

7-70 Mm/F1,4

Lluis
intérpretes: Ramón y Joaquim  

1977

Spain / 15 mins
An amateur filmmaker becomes obsessed with an attractive boy, pursuing him with his camera, day and night. A short film that focuses on the director’s relentless pursuit of perfection and beauty.
Un realitzador aficionat s'obsessiona amb un bell noi a qui persegueix amb la seva càmera nit i dia. Curtmetratge que reflecteix la recerca incansable de la perfecció i la bellesa per part del cineasta. .

All Women Are Equal
All Women Are Equal

Marguerite Paris

1972

UK / 15 mins
All Women Are Equal is a black and white 15- minute documentary filmed in Nottingham England in 1972, about Paula, a male to female transsexual made by veteran lesbian filmmaker Marguerite Paris (1934-2007). This very early and non-exploitative representation of an ordinary well- adjusted transgendered person is historically significant for its treatment of the subject.

Aranprunya
Aranprunyà

 Ramón
intérpretes: Francesc, Alfons y Enric
1976

Spain / 19 mins
Love, fantasy and legend are rarely found in the films of Els 5 QK’s, and that is what makes Aranprunyà so special. This is a poetic short in which our hero reaches the ruins of a castle to discover that, in his past life, he was once a passionate princess.

 

Boys 1976
Boys /
Dečki

Stanko Jost

1976

Jugoslavija (Slovenija) / 65 mins
Still longing for love and beauty Nani Papali died at the age of twenty, leaving his diary containing the words of love he feared to speak about openly about his fellow student. In 1938 this diary was rewritten into a book, and was the first novel to deal with the subject of gay love in Slovenia. Scandalous for its day, it caused a great stir and met with considerable disapproval. The film Boys, based on this novel, depicts the intimate world of boys’ affections.

Bussotti par lui même di Carlo Piccardi

Sylvano Bussotti

1975

Switzerland / 74 mins
Sylvano Bussotti, a multifaceted figure, also known as a painter, poet, novelist, theatre and film director, actor, singer, set and costume designer.

Christopher Street Gay Liberation Day 1971

Kate Millett,
Susan Kleckner

1971

USA / 15 mins
Filmed by women, this on-the-street documentation of one of New York’s early Gay Liberation marches is notable for its foregrounding of lesbians in the struggle for sexual freedom.

Chuck & Vince: Wedding of the Year

Christine Wynne

1978

USA / 6 mins
Billy & Chuck, an ambiguously gay tag team in the vein of Too Much and The West Hollywood Blondes, ditched the “ambiguously” part, with Chuck dropping down to one knee and proposing to Billy.

Fuck You, Santa Claus

Robert Opel

1978

USA / 19 mins
Sometimes the title literally says it all. In this erotic film, one man gets his ultimate Christmas wish.

Glad to be Gay

Tom Robinson

1978

UK / 3 mins – Music Video
Watch...https://youtu.be/zHG2LJGfEdw

I’m Something Else

Deborah Peaker

1973

Canada / 19 mins
The film includes graphic footage of gender affirming surgery on a transgender woman. It also includes interviews with three transgender women, the surgeon, and a psychiatrist.

Lindsay Kemp

Jean-Claude Wouters

1979

Belgium / 14 mins
Jean-Claude was able to attend Lindsay Kemp's "Flowers" performance, which he portrays in this Super 8 film.

Maricones Hasta El Final

Els 5 QK’s

1976

Spain / 70 mins
Alfonso de Sierra, Lluis Escribano, Ramón Massa, Ces Martí and Enric Bentz were Els 5 QKs, a group of filmmakers who, in 1975, teamed up to create a unique, avant-garde, transgressive cinema that broke with the social, religious and political conventions of the time, making “fags” (maricones in Spanish; words like gay and homosexual were not much used in those days) the protagonists, the heroes: proud, shameless, above good and evil… Absolute pleasure as identity.

Nancy, Henri and Elizabeth

Bob Aibel,
Lynn Fagan

1973

USA / 16 mins
An early film about transgender people.

Sheffield Transvestite Eviction

?

1972

UK / 6 mins

Still Life with Phrenology Head

Cerith Wyn Evans

1979

UK / 15 mins
I made the first, Still Life with Phrenology Head (1979), because I had a certain amount of arrogance, a sort of snootiness during my first couple of years at St Martin's.

Tea Room Scene

Richard J. Silverthorn

1975

USA / 8 mins
A popular USC jock with a doting girlfriend explores the underground male sex network in a university campus bathroom.

Transsexuals
Transsexuals

Shridhar Bapat,
Daniel Landau,
Susan Milano,
Gary Ormiston,
Elyshia Pass

1971

USA / 25 mins
In 1971, a group of students in New York City learning how to use the nascent technology of portable video interviewed Deborah Hartin for this documentary short. Having spent 20-plus years trying to conform to life in the body of a man, she followed her destiny all the way to Casablanca to receive the gender affirmation surgery that she had long yearned for and had attempted to self-administer in the past. Along with Esther Reilly (who was recently post-operative) and others in the transgender community, Hartin shares her story, revealing how the procedure had transformed her body, her life and her activism.

The Modern Image

John Maybury

1979

UK / 13 mins

Vindu mot vår tid:
Om homofile

?

1972

Norway / 13 mins
Special screening of excerpts from this NRK-produced documentary shown in January 1973. The documentary consists of two parts, we show Kim Friele in conversation with an NRK journalist where she explains what homosexuality is and entails, and it is striking how little has changed in the argument over the course of 40 years.

What About McBride?

Tom Lazarus

1974

USA / 10 mins
The year Anita Bryant launched her nationwide “Save the Children” attack on gay rights, this earnest educational film was released. As two teenage boys prepare for a rafting trip, one of them repeatedly argues that their friend McBride is “a fag” and should not be invited to join them. The film concludes with a well-meaning, if slightly dated, plea from popular young (straight ally) actor Beau Bridges urging tolerance of homosexuals.

 

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